Creating Custom Keyboard Shortcuts on a Mac

macmost.com/e-2842 Learn how to create a custom keyboard shortcut for any Menu Bar command in any app. You can also override existing keyboard shortcuts.
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00:00 Intro
00:26 System Settings
01:12 Creating a Custom Keyboard Shortcut
03:39 Troubleshooting
04:38 Another Example
05:35 Submenus
06:43 Changing Menu Item Names
07:53 Changing Existing Keyboard Shortcuts
08:18 Conflicts
#macmost #mactutorial #keyboardshortcuts

[@andrez4350]

Ok, Sir Garyness, first off, seeing the comment before mine solidifies the quality of your MacMost endeavor even more. Thank you for all you do! The intricacy of info you provide has been helpful in every way! \o/ Your pace of explanation, quality of annunciation as well as an ability to assist the Mac users complication...THANK YOU GARY!

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Thank you, 👏🏻❤️

[@user-kj2gf1cn1p]

hey man i love your videos a ton. you are an excellent teacher, well spoken, and very informative. i was trying to ask chat gpt for help which was good! but you go way way more in depth in half the time. cheers brother

[@yossibar-negev6784]

Thanks Gary. As always…. Clear, concise and great information. 👍

[@CPTJimmyJamz]

Thank you so much! I bought 4 different wireless keyboard trying to figure out the problem and you solved it for me!

[@user-mu4om2pg4j]

Thanks so much, this has been much more helpful than Apple's written help article and I achieved what I needed! Cheers.

[@elisabethvanbutsele2680]

Thank you! This was very helpful :)

[@TheMadArab138]

Thanks, exactly what I needed.

[@mygeekdom4414]

I’ve had an interesting problem. I was setting the function keys for the finder. Here, you have to know all of the functions you want to set beforehand. When I tried setting the keys, it had problems when one of them was a service I wrote with Automator. It wouldn’t hold a lot of my settings. Without that service, if I tried closing the settings window, then adding another function key later, all of my previous settings are lost. It would remember all of the menu options just not the function key assignments I gave them.

[@DokoGaTV]

Thank you for this! Awesome instructional as always! Is there a way to save/export this setting? I have another mac that I'd like to use all the app shortcuts that I'd created. Mahalo and Cheers!

[@nuj427]

Been playing around with all this ever since picking up a wireless keyboard for my M1 MBP. Trying to keep my hands on the keyboard as much as I can without using the mouse. Been happy with most shortcuts I've created, but one problem, Globe + C gives you Control Center, but with a third party keyboard, there's no way to map fn over the globe in the settings. Then also the fact that when you trigger Control Center, the arrow keys doesn't work in it so it sucks. I've send a feature request on this one. Hopefully they'll be interested to make some changes.

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@suatsekil]

Thanks solved my problems

[@emmawlover]

Hi Gary, thank you so much for this informative video! I transitioned from Windows to Mac several weeks ago and your channel has been a treasure for understanding the system. I binged so many videos before getting my MacBook and I truly believe that's how I was able to start using it immediately, frustration-free! Thank you! Regarding this video, I was wondering if you knew if there's a way to create a custom keyboard shortcut for a context menu? I would love to create a keyboard shortcut for Safari that imitates the action right click>Paragraph Direction>Right to left (or left to right). Is there a way to achieve this? Perhaps even through a third-party app?

[@macmost]

Usually you would just find the menu item in the Menu Bar and put the keyboard shortcut there. But this is one of those cases where the item only exists in the context menu so there's no way to do it.

[@carolc6085]

Thanks for this video! I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut to re-stack a stacked folder when I can't find the down arrow. Some of my stacks have thousands of files in them and it's virtually impossible to re-stack it because they completely fill the screen and I can't find that little down arrow. I have to restart my computer to fix it. I know the key command to invoke stacks but there doesn't seem to be a key command to re-stack them. Any help is appreciated.

[@IWTBFOY]

Waaa this is crazy!

[@talcual2138]

Very useful, Gary. Thanks. Is there a way to undo all the user's changes, to cancel all the user defined KB shortcuts?

[@macmost]

Remove all of the App Shortcuts you added and then use the Restore Defaults button on the other sections.

[@gozzilla78]

This was great, thanks a lot! I’m now on a Mac desktop and I’m planning to get a laptop soon. Is there a way to move all my custom shortcuts to the new MacBook? Will migration assistant manage that for me?

[@macmost]

Migration Assistant should do it, yes. Haven't tested it myself though.

[@barbarareis2849]

I love your videos, learned so much already.. Thank you! Is it possible to create shortcuts for actions that aren't on the top menu? I would love to create a shortcut for lists on pages (numbered list, bullet list)... Unfortunately, although pages has an easy and quick option to creat a shortcut to use in that particular document, I can't create one that would work in all pages documents. Tried the shown method using the name "numbered" (format > bullets & lists > numbered) but didn't work. This action is not available on the top menu, only on the side menu on the format tab, hence my question! Thank you so much again, hope you can help me out! Greetings from Brazil!

[@macmost]

It only works for the Menu Bar, not for things in sidebars and elsewhere.

[@batmite1977]

OMG. All those times I had to UNFORMAT TEXT, copying and pasting from programme to programme have gone! I've now just assigned a standard Command+V into a "Paste and Match Formatting' into a shortcut

[@aroonsarin8303]

Hi Gary, i've got a thinking challenge. Changing left to right text direction (E.g. notes). Format-> Text-> Writing Directions->. Both Paragraph and Selection submenus have exactly the same (Right to Left). How can you create a shortcut here? Didn't work for me using your guide!

[@jimmyrubo4593]

Great video! Is there a way to sync the shortcuts with iCloud? So that I can use them in a different computer.

[@macmost]

Yes. They should do that by default.

[@Gjermund-Sivertsen]

Thanks. How to change the default "Show [FILENAME] As Pathname" in finder, when the [Filename] obviously changes, depending on the file ? 🤔

[@macmost]

Do you mean how do you set a keyboard shortcut for something? I'm not understanding. There is no "Show [FILENAME] As Pathname" menu item.

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

Hello Gary. I’ve seen this before in your videos and used it since then! It’s very powerful feature indeed. I did use it for bullet and numbered lists in emails. It would be nice to see or know your list of commands for apps such as mail or Safari or other. I was wondering about the submenus and you just confirmed it to me as well thanks ! I was looking at superhuman for the lack of commands. Any idea how to add cc instead of bcc can’t find it…perhaps moving mail to specific folders, jumping between conversations and marking unread from inside the mail. Do you think I can change default ones for example compose command ? Thoughts. Thanks again 😊

[@macmost]

I don't really use any. Some specific ones for ScreenFlow, but I try to stick with the defaults for most apps. I'm not sure what you are asking about in tterms of bcc and conversations and such.

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

@@macmost that’s interesting. Although it’s really amazing to do almost everything using keyboard shortcuts. I meant that I couldn’t find in the menu a title for CC in mail app and I need to copy people always in my emails which is frustrating for no shortcut. Also I was wondering If I can override defaults commands? (My other questions are just checking if these shortcuts would be possible: moving email to specific folder, unreading, moving between threads…etc)

[@legr4ndk891]

Hey man, appreciate the work. How do I create a shortcut for sharing selected files via airdrop? It doesn't seem to work

[@legr4ndk891]

Found a solution. What I did is to create a shortcut "send-via-airdrop" in Shortcuts, and added that to finder quick actions. Create a keyboard shortcut for the quick action "send-via-airdrop" after that.

[@qwincyq6412]

Now all we need is to design a template or list to keep track of all these shortcuts because there’s no way to remember them when you need one.

[@macmost]

Keep in mind that you'll remember the ones you use often. And if you don't use it often, then do you really need it to be a shortcut at all?

[@jacksondoughty]

Such a MacMost response. And certainly accurate!

[@LunaticTheCat]

Haha, this is exactly what I did.

[@jo69123]

Sorry for the wierd question, but also noticed that when making a custom keyboard shortcut for Safari, for "Reopen Last Closed Tab", safari doesn't recognize the custom keyboard shortcut at first, and it only starts working after hovering the mouse over the "History" tab. Sort of like you have to manually make it remember the keyboard shortcut each time you open Safari from a closed state. Have you ever experienced this type of issue?

[@macmost]

Sorry, I've never seen that.

[@remi.bolduc]

Thank you for the video. I use an application called Transcribed. In this app, there is an option that allows me to delete markers. The problem is, in the menu, when I highlight a section, the menu changes from Delete Selected Markers, to Delete 2 Selected Markers. And then, depending on how many markers are selected, that number changes. Delete 3 Selected Markers, Delete 4 Selected Markers, etc. Is there a way to assign an "x" sign to a number that changes in a menu? Thanks a million

[@macmost]

No, there's no way to do that. You'll need to suggest to the developer that they either leave the menu name the same, or that they at least add a keyboard shortcut for that menu item.

[@yousifsaid4340]

Can you please make a tutorial for creating shortcuts on Microsoft powerpoint on Mac? I know how to command simple things like 'Text Box" but when I try to do something with opening an animation tab with the key it doesn't seem to work. Also I want to be more efficient when using Powerpoint on Mac since the Windows short keys for Powerpoint seem to be much more effective.

[@austinbenner]

If you want a back button like to go back to a previous webpage can that be assigned to JUST one button for instance the FN/Globe button? I know the shortcut is “command then either bracket or command back arrow” but I wanted to just hit one button to trigger the action instead of 2 buttons

[@macmost]

You can use an F-key for that. But you can't assign a modifier key as a single-key shortcut. Doing so would take away all of the other functionality of that key, some of which is needed.

[@MichaelNNguyen]

Hi, how do I do this for creating the short cut to put my Mac to sleep using the Magic Keyboard with TouchID?

[@macmost]

The menu item is in the Apple Menu and it is simply "Sleep." But note that you can simply hold the Touch ID button for 1.5 seconds and your Mac will lock. Then, your Lock Screen settings determine how long until the Display Sleeps after that.

[@rdm20fan]

Is there a way to enable “Hot keys” or “Text Replacements” with the new update? I used to have /intro and it would type out a phrase I had previously entered.

[@macmost]

Should work just as before.

[@Whatever0704]

Hi. Thanks for all the good info. It is possible to create a keyboard shortcut that would do a few steps... like a script.. would like a shortcut to start an instant google meet meeting

[@macmost]

Often Shortcuts can do that. It depends on what you want exactly and whether the apps support Shortcuts. Otherwise, Keyboard Maestro is another solution.

[@NatTanYZ]

Thanks for the great video Gary. I've got a weird one. In Bear, both Edit > Copy As > Plain Text and Edit > Paste From > Plain Text exist. What I want is to change the shortcut for the latter. Typing "Plain Text" as the menu item only changes the first one. 🤔 (Would be odd too if it somehow changed both!) Would you happen to know if there's a way to target the "Paste From > Plain Text" shortcut specifically? Thanks a bunch!

[@macmost]

No, there's no way to change the second one. File a bug report with the developer that they need to have separate unique menu titles for these commands so you can assign keyboard shortcuts.

[@NatTanYZ]

@@macmost Ah I see, thanks for the reply! I noticed that the option I wanted had its own keyboard shortcut, so I'll have to learn that instead :)

[@quentin.richard]

Hi Gary, thanks for sharing this tips. I was wondering if you had the solution for text menu that contains special characters ? My MacOS is in french and I do want to create a custom shortcut for Powerpoint on inserting an image from file in french the name is "Image à partir d'un fichier…" so there is an "à", which is a special character. Do you know how to manage that? When there is no special character in the menu label, it's working fine and I can create shortcut, but I'm struggling on this one... Many thanks !

[@macmost]

All you can do is to try it with just an an and then if that doesn't work with the à and see if that works. Remember the ... if that is part of the menu title too.

[@quentin.richard]

@@macmost thanks for the answer! Yes I tried with a simple « a » instead of « à ». And for the « … » I didn’t forget them, moreover I tried with three dots and semicolon shortcut to be sure but no changes… maybe I should escalate to Apple 😅

[@jesseself1562]

Hi Gary, is there a way to customize a shortcut for something in the File -> Share... location. I'm trying to share to Pocket or share to Zotero. Pretty sure I used to be able to do this, but not sure if something changed with Ventura.

[@macmost]

That's up to the App's developer. They need to add that code into their app.

[@djr3386]

Gary thank you for this tutorial. I am unable to add a custom keyboard shortcut for (View - Clean Up By - Date Created) under Finder (as there's no keyboard shortcut). Any suggestions, Gary?

[@macmost]

That's because View, Sort By, Date Created is first, so it takes the "Date Created" shortcut instead. There's nothing you can really do about it.

[@djr3386]

​@@macmostThank you Gary. 🙏

[@nss6610]

Great

[@FrankieSinclair]

Great video as ever, however I am stumped because I want a way to get Show Emoji & Symbols to appear easily across apps.

[@macmost]

That's just FN(Globe)+e. Should work anywhere you type text.

[@michelsamson5230]

What would be the way to implement 'font color RED' in Notes or even system wide?? Thanks!

[@macmost]

Can't think of a way to set a keyboard shortcut for that in Notes. For other apps, it would depend on the features of the app. In Pages, for instance, you can set up character styles and assign F1-F8 to those.

[@stingus]

Hello! Thank you for the video! It really helped me to setup a just right hotkey couple of times. Meanwhile, I'm currently in search of a way to assign actions to my mouse's extra buttons. I have a Logitech MX518 Legendary mouse and it has extra back and forward buttons on the side. These two work as intended in Chrome but they don't do anything in Safari. So I want to assign Back and Forward hotkeys to them but I have no idea how. In Windows there's a name for all the mouse buttons - mouse1 is a left one, mouse2 is a second one, mouse3 is a scroll wheel and any extra buttons are just mouse4, mouse5 etc. Maybe you know, how to assign something to such extra mouse buttons in MacOS?

[@macmost]

You'll need to look at Logitech's software to do that.

[@stingus]

@@macmost Oh. I thought I can do that through the hotkeys in system settings... Alright, will try that. Thank you for the answer!

[@gbsailing9436]

Hi Gary, is there a way to paste without formatting, I'd like to add a keyboard shortcut to do that...

[@macmost]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHq1apiQrrqWbqM

[@mstrathmore]

Thank you Gary - very useful. I've asked a related question on the forum today and perhaps you could comment here: I am trying to create a kbd shortcut for a command that *doesn't* appear in the menu (Sounds strange but bear with me). In Excel for Mac, I want a Keyboard shortcut for Edit > Paste Special > Values ("Values" only appears in a dialog box when you click "Paste Special"). Is there some way to create a shortcut that just directly does "Paste Special, Values"? Cheers, Mark.

[@macmost]

I responded to you there (better to only ask me in one place -- I can barely keep up with questions and comments as it is). Basically, that Word function is weird and I don't see any way to make a shortcut. It may be better to convert all of your data to text first then.

[@mstrathmore]

@@macmost cheers Gary thanks for the reply!

[@jo69123]

Gary, is there a way to disable forever, on all apps, the CMD+SHIFT+Q keyboard shortcut? I Hate that I can't use it when designing, since it quits all opened apps

[@macmost]

First, is it really necessary? Do you accidentally hit Command+Shift+Q often? And there is a confirmation step too, so an accident is unlikely to happen. But second, this technique would work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnmuk6pnqcZ1ias

[@jo69123]

@@macmost lol yeah all the time, I’m used to using windows, and having it for various adobe shortcuts, thanks a lot for the help

[@back-seat-driver1355]

hi Gary, i got used to command-n for creating a new folder for decades, need that very often, and command- shift N for a new finder window, now on macos ventura i was not able to get to these shortcuts currently. Is your proposed way also possible on the new mac os 13 ( ventura)? Thanks for any info on that!

[@macmost]

Yes, sure, you can do that if you really want.

[@back-seat-driver1355]

@@macmost Thanks Gary - It did not work - however only the next day - after a RESTART ( should have known that! ) - ... voila - I got my Command-N!!! I appreciate your tremendous repertoire of infos and valuable tips! Despite my long Mac history every time I find something I have not known before! Thanks so much!

[@ajadavis2000]

is it possible to create system wide shortcut (like screen shot) that will trigger a terminal script i have written?

[@macmost]

Yes. Use the Shortcuts app.

[@julyreverie]

I have a magic keyboard and I want to assign F16 and F19 to be delete (backspace) and tab so I can do one handed data entry... can you help me with this?

[@macmost]

Probably best to use Keyboard Maestro for something like that since you want to type actual characters, not perform a keyboard shortcut.

[@nderezic]

Can this be used to customize copy, cut and paste keyboard shortcuts so that Control key is used instead of the Command key?

[@macmost]

To switch Control and Command keys? No, that's under System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Modifier Keys. Or do you just want to switch it for Copy and Paste? Not sure if Control+C will work, but try it. Though I recommend to use Command as that is the Mac way.

[@nderezic]

@@macmost i use a Mac only occasionally, so I'm trying to make is a seamless experience. Thanks for your help!

[@tdrg_]

Hi I am trying to set Face ID > Enrolled to a keyboard shortcut but even after adding it correctly it still won't work. Any other submenu works. can you help me? thx

[@macmost]

Which app are you talking about?

[@hiddendope]

How to create an instruction in Menu Title for right click and then options that appear after I click it?

[@macmost]

Not sure what you are asking here. Note "right click" is for a context menu, which means there must be context. You right click *something* on the screen. So keyboard shortcuts aren't useful there. But many things in the Menu Bar use the content of what is selected, like Edit, Copy will copy selected text. So it really depends on what you are trying to do, specifically.

[@keysetter]

Hi Gary! Is there a way to setup a custom keyboard shortcut that mutes my usb microphone on my iMac (Ventura)? I was trying to setup a shortcut that checks the mute checkbox in the Audio Midi Setup app. Thank you :)

[@macmost]

I can't think of any way to easily do that.

[@keysetter]

@@macmostThanks so much for your reply. Yes, this is a hard one. 😊

[@navin_thomas]

Does this work for menu bar apps like, for example, f.lux?

[@macmost]

I don't think so.

[@user-kj2gf1cn1p]

question, can you make a command that opens certain websites?

[@macmost]

Yes. Use the Shortcuts app. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWnPoWWPhtZ9d7c but then use Open URL instead of launching an app in the Shortcut.

[@Yosuf06]

thank you for this helping video. but unfortunately i don't find what am looking for. i want to make a shortcut for the " Sleep " rather than hold the mouse and go to the apple menu and click on " Sleep "..!! i think we can't make a new keyboard shortcut for the anything in the system!!??

[@macmost]

You can. Just do it the way I show here.

[@Yosuf06]

@@macmost i try. But i couldn’t find it. That’s why i write this comment. I didn’t find anything about system shortcut at all!!!

[@macmost]

@@Yosuf06 Follow the instructions in this video. Set the Shortcut for All Applications and the menu title is "Sleep."

[@Yosuf06]

@@macmost so it's under ( all applications ) not in the system!!! I wondered why i don't see a system shortcuts section there!! I thought it that way. Because it is related to the system. I well try it. Thank you for the help.

[@AScribblingTurtle]

How do I do this for Menu points, that have special Quotes / Double quotes in their name? I have a menu point: Window -> Move to screenname In English this works as a short, like you show in the Video. In German it becomes Window -> Auf „screenname" bewegen. I tried copying the exact text from a screenshot of the menu (same like with this comment), but it still won't recognize it and My german qwertz keyboard can't type what ever quote symbol that is. I'm new to MacOS (2 Days old) So in terms of using it, I have no idea, what I'm doing. Please help🙏

[@macmost]

You are probably not getting the right characters when you use Live Text to grab the text from a screenshot (translated menu to image, pixels in the image to text). I don't know how to type those since I'm not using a German keyboard, but I'm sure you can. Experiment and see.

[@yddirf]

Hi Gary, I'm really looking for a shortcut that existed in previous versions of macOs, but now has changed and is not changeable. It's the command "Activate the next open window in the front app", the assigned shortcut is Command-Grave accent (`). In previous versions I always used another shortcut (in my case it was Command-> or Command-

[@macmost]

System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts (button), then select the Keyboard category to the left. It is called "Move focus to next window."

[@yddirf]

@@macmost AWESOME, thanks a lot! I would never have thought of that... 🫶

[@salman_babar]

What about creating keyboard shortcut for things that are NOT in the menu bar? e.g. OneNote change font color

[@macmost]

The app developer can add that. But there would be no way for the system to be able to do that since I doesn't know what the app is looking for.

[@salman_babar]

@@macmost thanks

[@foobaryorozuya4397]

Can I set up hotkeys for shortcuts as well?

[@macmost]

Do you mean shortcuts from the Shortcuts app? Yes, you can do it right in the Details section for each Shortcut.

[@venkatkumar2130]

Is there a way to map the enter key to open a file like in windows....Has been one of my biggest gripes after switching to Mac OS

[@macmost]

In the Finder? Command+O is for open.

[@venkatkumar2130]

@@macmost Yes, I know that. But is there a way to remap it to the Return key?

[@macmost]

@@venkatkumar2130 Return? No, that's for renaming a file. Remember macOS isn't Windows and Windows isn't macOS. Things will be different.

[@simonthebear]

In Sonoma, I can add a Keyboard shortcut for the Compress menu item in Finder, but not for the Tags... or Add "Red" menu items. Why is that?

[@macmost]

Because of the way the Add Tags element is constructed in the menu. You can still do some things though: kzbin.info/www/bejne/naCUcqB8oKpngNE

[@simonthebear]

@@macmost Great - that's very helpful, and thanks for the speedy reply!

[@asmundma]

Does this work for other then apple app?

[@macmost]

Yes. Try it and see.

[@Greacher]

Im wondering how i can make a shortcut for like google chrome. If im in safari i press se shortcut then i presses a button like for example E only in google chrome ? Would be nice for multi gaming

[@macmost]

I'm not sure what you are asking. What do you want the keyboard shortcut to do, exactly?

[@Greacher]

@@macmost im on opera browser playing a game. And i am healing myself in google chrome with my second charakter. So i dont want to cmd tab. I just want to press the shortcut so it cmd tab press like button E and cmd tab back to my lain charakter in the opera browser

[@macmost]

@@Greacher Sorry, I don' have the context here to help you. I don't know what it is you are trying to do. You say "press the shortcut" -- what shortcut? And I don't know what you mean at all by "so it cmd tab press like button E and cmd tab back."

[@MrEsparza76]

Didn't work for me. System Preferences/Accessibility/Spoken Content/Speak items under the pointer (command R) not sure why. I tried different combo keys (ctrl R so on) and nothing. Anyone have a suggestion?

[@macmost]

Not sure what you are doing. You create keyboard shortcuts by specifying the menu item name. But your comment refers to a system setting, not the Menu Bar.

[@consultmac]

How to make shortcuts for items that have icons(?) in the name like submenu “All Accounts“ in “Get New Messages For” in File Menu in Thunderbird? (where is an icon indicating download I think). I try typing ‘All Accounts’ but it doesn’t match it.

[@macmost]

Not sure. I don't have Thunderbird so I can't test.

[@consultmac]

The menu item that I’m interested in mapping already has a less-preferable shortcut. When QuicKeys was a functioning thing, I accomplished what I wanted by defining an alias - like making control-M trigger Shift-Alt-B or whatever. Is there anything that would do that in current OS, do you think? Thanks

[@macmost]

@@consultmac It doesn't matter if it has a keyboard shortcut already. You can use this to assign a new one.

[@consultmac]

@@macmost …. except that as I noted above that it doesn’t work for menu items that have icons alongside the text in the name (like in Thunderbird).

[@macmost]

@@consultmac Sorry, I didn't remember your previous comment (I deal with 100s per day...)

[@cherwinklinkenberg]

I often notice that custom-made shortcuts only work once you have viewed the corresponding command in the menu bar. Whenever you quit the app, you have to do this again in order for it to work. Very strange and annoying.

[@albertzappa1994]

I couldn't type the keyboard shortcut it wouldn't show.

[@MrStevepowell7253]

Can you explain why the keyboard shortcut created like this does appear in the apps menu but is greyed out?

[@macmost]

Details. You say it doesn't appear, but also that it appears but is grayed out? A menu item would be grayed out if it can't be used in the current situation.

[@MrStevepowell7253]

@@macmost In other words the shortcut doesn't work?

[@MrStevepowell7253]

To clarify, the menu item appears as always but the shortcut is greyed out. If I click on the menu it works but the keyboard shortcut doesn't work in the same situation.

[@macmost]

@@MrStevepowell7253 Not sure what you mean by "the shortcut is greyed out." Do you mean the text showing the keyboard combination to the right side of the menu item? Look at the other regular keyboard combinations in the menu. Does it look the same as those? All keyboard combinations have a gray appearance. It is hard for me to help as you never mention the app, the menu item, or the keyboard combination. Have you tried another combination?

[@MrStevepowell7253]

@@macmost The app is GarageBand, the menu item is Export Song to Disk and the shortcut is Control (the little up arrow)E.

[@NerdFiction]

Frustrating that Davinci Resolve recycles the names of monitors, It would have been nice to add a shortkey to turn on and off my clean video feed, but instead I just get to choose my primary display.

[@Richard_Aldington]

How to create a global shortcut? For instance I need to have the shift+cmd+t one to run iTerm.

[@macmost]

To launch an app? See kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWnPoWWPhtZ9d7c

[@Richard_Aldington]

@@macmost yes, thx a lot!

[@Richard_Aldington]

and an another question: UI way is not comfortable as for me, could you provide a shell script to create a shortcut? thx in advance

[@macmost]

@@Richard_Aldington Not sure what you are looking for here, sorry. Using a single keyboard shortcut to launch an app isn't comfortable? If you typed something in Terminal it would be pressing keys too though.

[@Richard_Aldington]

​@@macmost my appols, I didn't ask a clear question, I want to create a keyboard shortcut **using shell commands.** I see that after creating a new shortcut through the UI, a corresponding directory is created with the name of the shortcut and with the .workflow extension in the ~Library/Services/ directory with these files: $ find /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm\ Launcher\ 2.workflow/ /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm Launcher 2.workflow/ /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm Launcher 2.workflow//Contents /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm Launcher 2.workflow//Contents/QuickLook /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm Launcher 2.workflow//Contents/QuickLook/Thumbnail.png /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm Launcher 2.workflow//Contents/document.wflow /Users/myusername/Library/Services/iTerm Launcher 2.workflow//Contents/Info.plist is there a script or commands that create this tree and files without using UI?

[@aram5642]

Assigning shortcuts doesn't seem to work for menu-bar installed icons/menus, such as Docker or Google Drive...

[@macmost]

Assigning in what way?

[@aram5642]

@@macmost Via System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts

[@macmost]

@@aram5642 OK. Yes, doing that won't trigger things in the status menus on the right side of the menu bar. The problem is those apps aren't the active one, and that has to be the case for them to get the key presses. So you need to find another way to do what you want to do. I don't use either of those two apps so I can't be of much help there. See if they have a forum or support you can ask.

[@aram5642]

@@macmost Yes, that's what I eventually figured out. They don't receive keyboard shortcuts as they are not in focus. An application like that would probably need to install its all commands the same way macOS installs, for that matter, screenshot or a11y shortcuts. Which I'm not sure is available to third-parties.

[@macmost]

@@aram5642 They can, but it is not easy and often hard to determine what different users may want. I allow for 2 such "hotkey" keyboard shortcuts in my ClipTools app, for instance.

[@Omineus]

How to Make a shortcut key for custom Text?

[@macmost]

Something like this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHXGgHSqfZ5nqKM

[@mcknottee]

An alert warning about over riding an existing shortcut would be useful. Hint, hint, Apple. 😁

[@macmost]

Would be tough to implement though. System Settings would have to reach into other apps, examine their code, and determine if the key combination was in use. But there are many ways that an app can activate keyboard shortcuts dynamically so it wouldn't always be able to tell.

[@pan3x]

not working for me for some reason, made a shortcut (option + d) for chrome to duplicate a tab, under the menu Tab/Duplicate tab I see the shortcut set ⌥D but it ain't working when I press the button, what can be the reason? I restarted the browser but no result 😑

[@macmost]

Does it show up in the menu when you look? Have you tried another shortcut to see if maybe that one won't work with Chrome?

[@pan3x]

@@macmost yes it does show up in menu and I tried with diff key combinations, not working with neither, not working in safari neither, it surprises me that chrome still aint made that shortcut, its just the basics i got a plugin for it tho

[@user-uc5vi2iy5i]

This guy is a huge life saver 🛟